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Mothers vs. career women
Bonnie Erbe talks about woman's roles: Mothers vs. Career Women
Categories: Emporia Gazette
Technical foul
Putting aside whether the Emporia school board took into account taxpayers’ concerns about the long-term value of installing a new football field at Emporia High School, the board technically played by the rules in September when it entered into a contract with Custom Energy Solutions of Overland Park that included spending $1.6 million to install artificial turf and accompanying track.
Categories: Emporia Gazette
Looking for family
In the 1880’s Thomas (Tom) Jones and his wife, Elizabeth emigrated from Carno, Montgomeryshire, Wales to Emporia.
Categories: Emporia Gazette
COLUMNISTS The myth of ’08 demolished
Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010.
Categories: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Elephant chomp
Every town would be wise borrow the page from Springdale’s play book that explains how to proactively enforce city codes.
Categories: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
DRIVETIME MAHATMA Pedestrian bridge; so many cars
Hi: I was at the Big Dam Bridge. It was a lovely day and it seemed EVERYONE was out. The little parking lot was full, and there were more than a dozen cars parked on the side of the road where there were signs plainly stating “No Parking Anytime.” How vulnerable would one be to a ticket if one were to park on the shoulder like that? — Mary Louise.
Categories: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
About those 135 lion victims
Short take • About those 135 lion victims? Never mind.
Categories: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
City apologizes for razing a homeless camp.
Our view • City apologizes for razing a homeless camp.
Categories: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Cracking the blue wall in St. Louis
Our view • Cleaning house and confronting crime on Clark Street.
Categories: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
At long last: Obama-weather.com
Short Take • Why the Internet was invented: Obama-weather.com
Categories: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Back to the future for a public option.
Our view • Blue Cross history holds lessons for public health insurance option.
Categories: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Letter to the editor on tea party, Shriners, lung cancer, organ donation, film festival, postal workers, kind strangers
We can't take back what we don't own
I am getting tired of all the "tea party" people saying they want their country back. I have news for them: President Obama did not take their country.
As to who took "their country": It is and always will be rich white men. Obama may be president, but this country is owned by rich white people. If you do not have any money in this country, you don't own or run anything.
Categories: Wichita Eagle
Dr. Bill Roy: Need to get everyone in health care system
I have slowly realized that the fiasco going forward in Washington, D.C., under the rubric of health care reform is severely handicapped by the failure of the people of this nation to decide whether of not everyone has a right to health care.
Congressional Republicans do not seem to care how many people are left out of the system, and Democrats have a tolerance for leaving about 20 million on the outside looking in. And no one has the courage to do anything about costs doubling every nine years.
So I was delighted to read an interview with Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger in the Topeka Capital-Journal. Praeger is a Republican and chairwoman of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' health care committee.
Categories: Wichita Eagle
Opinion Line (Nov. 7)
With our central location and strong health care and manufacturing industries, Wichita should become a center for vaccine manufacturing. Then the United States wouldn't have to rely on foreign countries for vaccine.
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To all you Obama supporters: Scrape off the bumper sticker, put down the cigarettes, get off public assistance, and become productive members of society so that I don't have to continue to support you.
Categories: Wichita Eagle
Opinion Line Extra (Nov. 7)
I'd bet at least half the people complaining about the possibility of the tanker deal going to an American-European company are driving cars made by Japanese-American or Korean-American companies.
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Financial freedom is a pipe dream. I want off this planet.
Categories: Wichita Eagle
Hansen: Des Moines man has answer to atheists’ message
Dick Galloway never wanted to tear down those atheist-sponsored signs on metro buses. He wanted to answer them.
Categories: Des Moines Register
Green Zone: So far, a large gap between goals and reality
Last April, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver began promoting an effort to use federal stimulus funds to upgrade 150 square blocks of inner Kansas City. He called it the Green Impact Zone. “I'm so excited, I'm trying to calm down,” Cleaver had said. “This is a perfect storm of opportunity.”
Categories: Kansas City Star
Pentagon should do more the heed the warning signs
There were warning signs that U.S. Army Major Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was unstable long before he allegedly shouted “God is great” in Arabic and opened fire at Fort Hood Thursday. Press reports quickly found that Hasan — who is believed to have killed 13 and wounded 30 before he was shot, wounded and arrested — had drawn attention because of his behavior at Fort Hood and at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he worked previously.
Categories: Kansas City Star
A public option is a necessity for reform
I support health-care reform that will give the consumer options and real competition in the insurance market. The top five health-insurance providers in the United States made $80 billion in profits in 2008.
Categories: Des Moines Register
Face long-term care financing challenges
The Oct. 31 editorial about the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act raises some important questions, but does not offer an alternative to solve the urgent problem of long-term care financing.
Categories: Des Moines Register